His goal: regain the Light Heavyweight title and once again become world champion. Watch Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in his quest, as he trains intensely for his bout at UFC® Rio against fan favorite Forrest Griffin. Rua makes a great sacrifice by leaving family and friends to train more than 6000 miles away in Huntington Beach, California with great fighters like Wanderlei Silva andMark Munoz. Watch this explosive fighter in the co-main event at UFC® Rio: Silva vs Okami, August 27 at 9PM ET/6PM PT live on pay per view.
His goal: regain the Light Heavyweight title and once again become world champion. Watch Mauricio “Shogun” Rua in his quest, as he trains intensely for his bout at UFC® Rio against fan favorite Forrest Griffin. Rua makes a great sacrifice by leaving family and friends to train more than 6000 miles away in Huntington Beach, California with great fighters like Wanderlei Silva andMark Munoz. Watch this explosive fighter in the co-main event at UFC® Rio: Silva vs Okami, August 27 at 9PM ET/6PM PT live on pay per view.
Tweet The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services released the official salaries for last weekends UFC on Versus 5 event (aka UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle) today. The total payroll for the Versus show came to $578,000 with headliner Chris ‘Lights Out’ Lytle earning the most with a $70,000 payday ($35,000 to show and […]
The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services released the official salaries for last weekends UFC on Versus 5 event (aka UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle) today.
The total payroll for the Versus show came to $578,000 with headliner Chris ‘Lights Out’ Lytle earning the most with a $70,000 payday ($35,000 to show and $35,000 for the win). The second top earner was prelim fighter Ed Herman who received $52,000 ($26,000 – $26,000), followed by Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone who earned $44,000 ($22,000 – $22,000).
UFC on Verus 5 took place last Sunday, August 14, at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and featured a four bout main card which aired live on Versus.
The full fighter salaries for the event are as follows:
Main Card
Chris Lytle: $70,000 ($35,000 win bonus included) def. Dan Hardy: $25,000
Ben Henderson: $34,000 ($17,000 win bonus included) def. Jim Miller: $35,000
Donald Cerrone: $44,000 ($22,000 win bonus included) def. Charles Oliveira: $12,000
Duane “Bang” Ludwig: $32,000 ($16,000 win bonus included) def. Amir Sadollah: $20,000
Preliminary Card
Jared Hamman: $24,000 ($12,000 win bonus included) def. C.B. Dollaway: $20,000
Joseph Benavidez: $43,000 ($21,500 win bonus included) def. Eddie Wineland: $10,000
Ed Herman: $52,000 ($26,000 win bonus included) def. Kyle Noke: $8,000
Ronny Markes: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus included) def. Karlos Vemola: $10,000
Jim Hettes: $12,000 ($6,000 win bonus included) def. Alex Caceres: $8,000
Cole Miller: $34,000 ($17,000 win bonus included) def. T.J. O’Brien: $6,000
Jacob Volkmann: $28,000 ($14,000 win bonus included) def. Danny Castillo: $17,000
Edwin Figueroa: $12,000 ($6,000 win bonus included) def. Jason Reinhardt: $6,000
The numbers do not include “Fight Night” bonuses, or behind the scenes bonuses, or monies earned via sponsors, or other similar incomes.
Strikeforce Challengers 19 fight card rumors and scheduled bouts on September 23, 2011, at The Pearl at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read More >>
Strikeforce Challengers 19 fight card rumors and scheduled bouts on September 23, 2011, at The Pearl at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read More >>
Ten athletes who underwent drug testing at this past weekend’s Strikeforce Challengers 18 event tested clean for performance-enhancing drugs and recreational/drugs of abuse.
Among those 10, main-event competitors Joe Duarte and Jorge Gurgel also unde…
Ten athletes who underwent drug testing at this past weekend’s Strikeforce Challengers 18 event tested clean for performance-enhancing drugs and recreational/drugs of abuse.
Among those 10, main-event competitors Joe Duarte and Jorge Gurgel also underwent out-of-competition testing – on July 21 and 22, respectively – and also tested clean.
Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer today e-mailed the drug-testing results to MMAjunkie.com.
Tweet Bellator season four finalist, Rick Hawn (11-1) has been forced to withdraw from his upcoming fight with Ben ‘Killa B’ Saunders (10-3-2) due to a knee injury. Hawn and Saunders had been scheduled to meet at Bellator 49 next month in the opening round of Bellator’s season five tourny. Hawn posted the news on […]
Bellator season four finalist, Rick Hawn (11-1) has been forced to withdraw from his upcoming fight with Ben ‘Killa B’ Saunders (10-3-2) due to a knee injury.
Hawn and Saunders had been scheduled to meet at Bellator 49 next month in the opening round of Bellator’s season five tourny.
Hawn posted the news on Twitter (@RickHawnMMA), noting that he’d be back later this fall which is a good indicator that the injury isn’t bad.
– Have to call off my fight against Ben Saunders in the Bellator tourney. Hurt my knee but ill b back stronger than ever in a few months.
Bellator 49, which opens the promotions fifth season, is scheduled to take place on September 10 at Caesars Atlantic City in New Jersey.
Hawn suffered his first career defeat in his last fight, losing to Jay Hieron by split decisoin at Bellator 43 in May in the season four welterweight tournament finals. Previous to that the former Judo Olympiad had earned wins over Lyman Good and Jim Wallhead to make it into the season four finals.
Saunders made his Bellator debut in April, earning a third round TKO doctor stoppage against Matt Lee in an entertaining 175 lb catchweight bout. That win likely earned Saunders a spot in this falls season five tournament. ‘Killa B’ had been scheduled to appear at Bellator 47 but was forced to pull out of the event due to an undisclosed injury.
Tweet “A potential fight of the night has been verbally agreed to as Rick ‘The Horror’ Story will face Martin ‘The Hitman’ Kampmann at UFC 139,” said UFC President Dana White. White made that announcement on Wednesday at UFC.com pitting UFC welterweights Martin ‘Hitman’ Kampmann (17-5) and Rick ‘Horror’ Story (13-4) for November’s event. UFC […]
“A potential fight of the night has been verbally agreed to as Rick ‘The Horror’ Story will face Martin ‘The Hitman’ Kampmann at UFC 139,” said UFC President Dana White.
White made that announcement on Wednesday at UFC.com pitting UFC welterweights Martin ‘Hitman’ Kampmann (17-5) and Rick ‘Horror’ Story (13-4) for November’s event.
UFC 139: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos is expected to take place on November 19 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. The event will be headlined by a UFC heavyweight title bout between champ Cain Velasquez versus top contender, Junior dos Santos.
Kampann is coming off of the first back-to-back losses of his career, after losing a decision to Diego Sanchez at UFC on Versus 3, and a split decision to Jake Shields at UFC 121. The bout with Sanchez earned both fighters $160,000 for “Fight of the Night” as the UFC Pres was so impressed with the bout. Previous to those losses, ‘Hitman’ had won two straight with a decision victory against Paulo Thiago at UFC 115, and a first round submission win over Jacob Volkmann at UFC 108.
Story had a six fight win streak stopped in June, losing a unanimous decision to last second replacement Charlie Brenneman at the UFC on Versus 4 event. ‘Horror’ had been scheduled to face Nate Marquardt, but ‘The Great’ was pulled on weigh-in day and was replaced by Brenneman, who came in as a heavy underdog. Story’s last win was in May, a decision victory over former contender Thiago Alves at UFC 130.
Ten athletes who underwent drug testing at this past weekend’s Strikeforce Challengers 18 event tested clean for performance-enhancing drugs and recreational/drugs of abuse.
